chirche

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A form of church — A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounchirche (countable and uncountable, plural chirches)

plural chirches

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of church.

    I thynke it better moꝛe mete and pꝛofytable / To ſtande afarre without the Chirche and quere / Than there to be ⸝ and ſo to that bable / That foꝛ thy noyſe none can the ſeruyce here […]

    1509 December 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Sebastian Brant], translated by Alexander Barclay, “Of the Claterynge and Bablynge of Prestis and Clerkes in the Quere”, in […] The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde […], London: […] Rycharde Pynson […], →OCLC, folio CLXXXXIIII, recto; republished as The Shyp of Folys (The English Experience […]; 229), Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, 1970, →ISBN
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APA

chirche. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chirche

MLA

“chirche.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chirche. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chirche,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chirche.

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